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jumart|ˈdʒuːmɑːt|
Also 7 gimar.
[a. F. jumart, formerly jumare, ad. mod.Pr. gemerre, gemarre, of uncertain origin.]
A hybrid animal, erroneously believed to be the offspring of a bull and a mare or she-ass, or of a horse or ass and a cow.
1690Locke Hum. Und. iii. v. §23 We have Reason to think this not impossible, since Mules, and Gimars [Wks. 1714 I. 206 jumarts], the one from the mixture of an Horse, and an Ass, the other from the mixture of a Bull, and a Mare, are so frequent in the World. 1809Phil. Trans. XCIX. 397 A jumart..the pretended offspring of the mare and the bull. |